Senior Operations Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Operations Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 464 612
Rank change year-on-year +126 +148 -112
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Operations Engineer 8 1 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.055% 0.004% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.004% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £465 - £325
25th Percentile £544 - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £575
75th Percentile £731 - £700
90th Percentile £735 - -
UK median daily rate £700 £688 £525
% change year-on-year +1.82% +30.95% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,673 23,018 42,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.28% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,245 16,317 30,649
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 528 572
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £25.53 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +47.89% +52.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £76.80 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Senior Operations Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Operations Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Operations Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Operations Engineer.

Senior Operations Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Senior Operations Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Senior Operations Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (25.00%) SIEM
4 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (12.50%) Attack Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle
5 1 (12.50%) XML
5 1 (12.50%) Windows
5 1 (12.50%) Linux
5 1 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (12.50%) LAN
5 1 (12.50%) VPN
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (12.50%) SAML
5 1 (12.50%) Management Information System

Senior Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
1 1 (12.50%) IaaS
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
1 1 (12.50%) SAML
1 1 (12.50%) XML
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (12.50%) Cyberattack
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (12.50%) Insider Threat
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Attack Monitoring
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) DDoS Mitigation
2 1 (12.50%) E-Discovery
2 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (12.50%) RBAC
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (12.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto